Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-02-04

apt to come to grief when they run bolt
against statistics! So far from the
tabulated columns of domestic infelio-
tiles showing that the first year OF
married life is ever the saually season.
they prove overwhelmingly that only
about the tenth year does the regular
storm line come, and the shore rets
strewn with marital wrecks.
Surely little reflection ought to
have convinced any thoughtful man OF
the probability of this. without resort
to statistics. An attractive young wo-
man can get into a pct a good many
times and still retain charm enough to
seem very adorable. A handsome fell
low of husband, too, can long remain
a joy, pride, and triumph to young
wife's heart, even though many an exhi-
bition of lack of dignity or chivalrous
devotion. The tug of war comes when
the couple have become thoroughly
used to one another, and seemingly
offer no spices of variety; when each
can monotonously predict to the other,
with all accuracy Of an astronomer cal
culating comet or an eclipse, just what
he or she will eternally think, say, or
do. Now, it is all we'll enough for
eclipses or comets to come to time. It
is as much their nature to as that of
dogs to delight to bark and bite.
Navigators and almanac makers would
be put out if they did not, and city
clocks would be of no more use than
boys pewter toy watches. But of all
the aggravations of life, few are so
exasperating as the man or woman who
can always be relied on to come to time
with the some old story, same old
headache, same old complaint. All!
if, by way of change, it were only for
once acute collie instead of chronic
headache! And just here comes in the
real rock of shipwreck, upon which so
many marriages split. Nature abhors
monotony, nature cries out for variety,
and will have it by hook OF by crook,
by fair means or by foul. Even if peo-
pie must have tantrums, they can at
least indulge in variety of tantrums,
SO that you can never be sure before
hand which species will crop out. Then
there is at least something fresh and
piquant to be on the lookout for.
Naturally and nationally a man who has
married one women of 20 wants to
marry another of 40, and another Of
so, and to live happily with eacl..
Not that any Mormon doctrine is ad-
vocated here. The wife may be the
same identical woman every time, only
with good deal of addition to her at
each decade. Indeed, the only
monogamy that it is utterly intolerable
is that in which the husband or wife
thinks to be married for life" on the
strength Of the sole physical, mental,
and moral capital that originally stood
up in the bridegroom's patent feathers
or the BRIDES satin slippers at the we'd
ding ceremony. Polygamy with one
wife, then, is IN institution that has its
legitimate claims. Every man in ma
ture years ought to be able to look
back upon beautiful series of welded
unions, first with a blooming, light
hearted young creature, taking life on
trust, then with an earnest, devoted
mother, then with sorrowing, Heaven
aspiring being who has stood with him
at the graves of children, then with q
strong, sustaining helpmate whose
higher courage supported him when the
day of reverses come. It is because
such numbers of men and women do
not grow larger and richer, and so meet
one another as fresh, new gifts of
Heaven when life's various vicissitudes
open up, stale, flat, and improbable to
one another. This explains the mean
ing of the line storm that, as statistics
show, prevails so disastrously about the
tenth year of married life, when the
monotony OF living with husband who
is the same old story he was at the
start or wife who is the same long
worn-out grind organ tune, without o
variation, grows utterly intolerable, and
the two fly asunder for % breath of re-
lief.